Tuesday, May 19, 2009
A Niebuhrian Renaissance
I keep coming back to this quote from George Weigel:
...because, for a good postmodern liberal like President Obama, that progressive “consensus” is so self-evidently true that one can afford to be generous in acknowledging that others, less enlightened but arguably sincere, have different views.
I was also re-reading the chapter (22) on Reinhold Niebuhr in Mead's God and Gold and was reminded of how slimy E.J. Dionne and David Brooks are. I'll write more in the coming days but God and Gold is an opposition research must read. Needless to say, Dionne is positively giddy that "Obama has strengthened moderate and liberal forces inside the [Catholic] church." I surmise his feelings are similar to those the writers and editors have at the Connecticut Post when they exhaustively cover church scandals.
Source: Speaking of Dionne by Ramesh Ponnuru
...because, for a good postmodern liberal like President Obama, that progressive “consensus” is so self-evidently true that one can afford to be generous in acknowledging that others, less enlightened but arguably sincere, have different views.
I was also re-reading the chapter (22) on Reinhold Niebuhr in Mead's God and Gold and was reminded of how slimy E.J. Dionne and David Brooks are. I'll write more in the coming days but God and Gold is an opposition research must read. Needless to say, Dionne is positively giddy that "Obama has strengthened moderate and liberal forces inside the [Catholic] church." I surmise his feelings are similar to those the writers and editors have at the Connecticut Post when they exhaustively cover church scandals.
Source: Speaking of Dionne by Ramesh Ponnuru
Labels: books, connecticut post, obama
